Every December I write a blog post about the best art I saw that year. My previous job used to take me to contemporary art hotspots like the Venice Biennale, New York, and Art Basel Miami Beach. I don’t often make it to those places in my current line of work, but I still getContinue reading "The Best Art I Saw in 2024"
What Gets Broken, What Gets Saved, Part 2: Syria on Screen
This is part two in a series of blog posts about the anxious political moment on the eve of the second Trump presidency, and how it’s reminding me of Documenta 13 (in 2012) with its themes of destruction, survival, and renewal. Documenta is an exhibition that happens every five years in Kassel, Germany. Part 1Continue reading "What Gets Broken, What Gets Saved, Part 2: Syria on Screen"
What Gets Broken, What Gets Saved
This is the start of a series of blog posts. What follows is an introduction and Part 1. I believe that artworks can only really connect with people at particular times in their lives. Ideally, a work of art has a profound impact the moment you see it for the first time, but this isContinue reading "What Gets Broken, What Gets Saved"
Let AI Make Content, I Want Art
A still from a video generated by OpenAI's Sora, showing two pirate ships in coffee. OpenAI recently announced Sora, a new text to video AI tool. It works like ChatGPT and Dall-E, but instead of creating text or still images from prompts, it creates very detailed videos up to one minute long. As with everythingContinue reading "Let AI Make Content, I Want Art"
The Best Art I Saw in 2023
Almost every year I write a big long post here about the best art I've see in the year. Back when I worked for ArtPrize I would travel regularly to art events and art destinations like New York, the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, etc. So my lists would be filled with highlights from thoseContinue reading "The Best Art I Saw in 2023"
Remembering Chris Smit
Chis Smit was a scholar and disability rights activist. He co-founded DisArt, a production company that cultivates disability culture. Chris passed away on January 4, 2023. The following text was written for "Letters to Chris" on the DisArt website. Chris Smit was someone who changed how I saw the world multiple times, as a professor,Continue reading "Remembering Chris Smit"
The Best Art I Saw in 2022
For years I always wrote a post in late December about the best art I had seen that year. When I worked for ArtPrize I got to travel to art fairs, biennials, and various cities where I visited museums and galleries. When Covid hit in 2020 ArtPrize was canceled and I left that job. IContinue reading "The Best Art I Saw in 2022"
My ‘Project 2’ T-Shirt: Swag for a Non-Existent Exhibition
Back in 2018, when I was still Artistic Director of ArtPrize, we announced that following that year’s event ArtPrize would continue on a biennial schedule. This was to make room for a new format of public art exhibitions that would take place in the intervening years. The first one, held in 2019, was called ProjectContinue reading "My ‘Project 2’ T-Shirt: Swag for a Non-Existent Exhibition"
The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 2
It's been an unusual year, and this is an unusual version of my annual blog post about the best artworks I saw. Most are not really artworks at all, and I spent some time explaining my thinking around that in Part 1. Here's Part 2: 6. Factorio My base in Factorio A few months agoContinue reading "The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 2"
The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 1
Every year at this time I write a blog post about the best art I saw throughout the year. This has not been a normal year, so this won't be a normal list. I used to travel a lot, I’d see exhibitions all over the country and all over the world; New York, Miami, LosContinue reading "The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 1"
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